FABIO GIAMPIETRO
Fabio Giampietro was born in 1974 in Milan, Italy, where he still lives and works.
Through his seminal painting technique of subtracting the color from the canvas, he realizes powerful and intense figurative paintings. Relevant exhibitions have been in London, Berlin, Bologna, Istanbul, Los Angeles, Milan, Shanghai, and Toronto.
His innovative investigations of modern painting have made him one of the most sought-after young Italian painters.
In Fabio Giampietro’s work the barriers of art come tumbling down and the propensity of continuity and simultaneity amongst the three spatial dimensions and time becomes tangible, though still imponderable to the viewer’s eyes. His work marks the liberation of painted forms from the classical framework, enhancing a process already well established in the course of Italian Modern and Contemporary Art. It started with the revolutionary theories of Futurism at the beginning of the XIX Century and continued with the velocity of Lucio Fontana’s gesture of cutting the canvas to explore the space behind and beyond it.
Giampietro’s investigations melt the tradition of painting with the most innovative technologies conjugating the planes of space and time and annihilating the contemplative distance between the senses of the spectator and the reality of the artwork.


Fabio Giampietro
‘The Wave’ is part of the award-winning series Hyperplanes of Simultaneity (2016-2019). The project was presented with an exhibition in 2016 at Palazzo Reale, Milan and suddenly was considered a virtuous example of the union of tradition and innovation: a combination of virtual reality and painting. It was a huge success ahead of its time and in the same year, "Hyperplanes of Simultaneity" obtained the Lumen Prize, the international award for the best works of art created with the use of new technologies. Diptych-Oil on canvas